We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSHow long does it have to go on? This punishment? Haven’t I done time enough, haven’t I served my term? can’t I apply for a-pardon?
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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It’s hard enough for me to write what I want to write without me trying to write what you say they want me to write which I don’t want to write.
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It is planned speeches that contain lies or dissimulations, not what you blurt out so spontaneously in one instant.
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The scene is memory and is therefore nonrealistic. Memory takes a lot of poetic license. It omits some details; others are exaggerated, according to the emotional value of the articles it touches, for memory is seated predominantly in the heart.
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To change is to live, to live is to change, and not to change is to die.
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Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace.
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You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
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Some things are not forgiveable.
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I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
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He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
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There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.
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All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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William Saroyan wrote a great play on this theme, that purity of heart is the one success worth having. “In the time of your life–live!”
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What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
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The only unforgivable sin is deliberate cruelty.
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